Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

At Northwestern, I know two people who took a gap year. In London, it’s much less of an anomaly. One of my flatmates worked full-time at a grocery store for half a year to save up for spending half a year in India. Many others take at [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

One of my most enjoyable experiences traveling abroad has been staying in hostels with a motley crew of impoverished students and professionals in their late twenties and thirties who’ve decided to travel the world for six months instead of buying a Ferrari. Meeting a bunch of strangers [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

Writing this blog has been hard. As you might have been able to tell from a few recent half-assed posts, I just don’t know what to write about. I’ve had thoughts that I’m willing to share like “you can buy boxed lunches everywhere in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

I spent the weekend on the bonnie (better known as “rainy”) shores of Scotland, and yes, just like in London it rains a lot. The five day trip was phenomenal and made a little better because I was on my own.
After a series of people falling [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

My liver hurts. Fresher’s Week (Queen Mary’s version of New Student Week) just ended and the drinking can finally conclude.
It’s strange being in the dorms because my roommates are almost only first years (freshmen — it’s like Harry Potter!) who are starry-eyed and oozing with enthusiasm [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

I arrived in London at approximately 8:45 a.m. local time after a brief delay in the Detroit airport. There were individual screens in coach on the plane which were too neat to allow me to sleep through.
On my first night here, I did like the locals [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

I have a lot of shit. This became much less of a problem when I moved out of a 4-bedroom, 5-person apartment and into my own one-bedroom early this summer. I had an entire room to clutter with my clothes and accessories and another to fill with [...]